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Milagros Quezada (born May 21, c. 1955), much better known in the show business world as Milly Quezada, is a Dominican merengue music singer. Quezada refuses to reveal her real age. She has become famous in Latin America; especially in those Latin American countries bordered by the Caribbean sea, and in the eastern area of the United States.

Biography

Quezada was born in Santo Domingo, the daughter of two Cibao naturals and the sister of four musician brothers. Growing in this family, Quezada became interested in music since she was a toddler; she would sing along with her brothers for family, friends and small crowd gatherings close to her home.

Quezada expressed an interest in developing her singing talents as a young girl, and, in part because of that, her family moved to New York City when she was still a kid.

Quezada spent her pre-teen and teenage years in New York, a city that is well known as a school for future Merengue and Salsa singers around its Latino barrios. In New York, Quezada developed an in-depth knowledge for her favotrite music genre. After graduating from high school there, she attended New York City College, from where she graduated with a university degree in communications.

During the 1980s, Quezada was the leading singer of a group named Milly y los Vecinos. The group enjoyed wild international success, producing 20 records, of which some were released both in vinyl and CD format; others only as CD's, because the vinyl album technology practically fell out of use by the end of the decade.

Quezada then decided to embark on a solo career, moving to Puerto Rico and getting married there. She became a mother, and enjoyed more success as a solo singer. Since the decade of the 1990s, Quezada has been on tour or on studios constantly, and she has earned numerous awards and privileges, including the key to some cities (see below).

On May of 2005, she had a Dominican Republic tour that included one concert with the famed Conjunto Quisqueya.

Quezada has publicly proclaimed her love for the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the United States.

Discography

Milly y los Vecinos

Esta es Milly con los Vecinos (This is Milly with los Vecinos)
La gente de hoy (Today's People)
Pa' Dominicana (To Dominican Republic)

Los Vecinos en su momento (The Vecinos at Their Best Moment)

'Milly en Boleros (Milly into Boleros)

Acabando (Kicking Some)

Nostalgia (Nostalgy)
Esta Noche, Los Vecinos (Topnight, Los Vecinos!)
Milly en Salsa (Milly into Salsa, alongside Luis Perico Ortiz)
Dinastía
Special Delivery
Etiqueta Negra (Black Tie Affair)
Por Supuesto (Of Course)
Ahora es (Now's the Time)
7+1= Vecinos
Flyng solo
La Milly una noche (Milly, one Night)
Celebrando (Celebrando)
Lo Mejor de Milly y los Vecinos (The Best of Milly y los Vecinos, a remix)
En tus manos (On Your Hands)

As a solo singer

Quezada has recorded five solo albums, receiving a Latin Grammy for Pienso asi.

Hasta siempre (Forever)
Milly vive (Milly Lives)
Tesoros de mi Tierra (Treasures From my Homecountry, where she had her first experience singing Bachata)

Milly, éxitos y más (Milly, Hits and More)

Pienso así (This is How I Think'')

City Keys

Quezada has received many awards during her career, such as the aforementioned Grammy. Arguably, one of the highest honors a person or celebrity can receive is a city's keys, usually handled over by that city's mayor. Here is a list of cities that have given Quezada that symbolic award:

Jersey City, New Jersey
Providence, Rhode Island
New York, New York
West New York, New York

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